About the book: 2008 / Even experts in Russian history and historians first of all remember and appreciate the multi-volume works of N. M. Karamzin and S. M. Solovyov. The name of Nikolai Alekseevich Polevoy (1796–1846), an outstanding historian, writer and playwright, has been undeservedly forgotten. Meanwhile, his main scientific work, “The History of the Russian People,” is the brightest phenomenon of Russian culture. As was customary in Russian historiography at that time, N. A. Polevoy builds a book on specific reigns and reigns, slowly and sincerely telling about great and sorrowful events in the life of the Fatherland.